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arithmetic possible," also from the origin of the moral 



sense." 



The validity of these objections is fully conceded by the 

 author of this book, but he woukl push it nmch further, and 

 contend (as has been now repeatedly said) that another 

 law, or other laws, than " Natural Selection " have deter- 

 niineil the evolution of all organic forms, and of inorganic 

 forms also. And it must be contended tliat Mr. Wallace, 

 in order to be quite self-consistent, should arrive at the very 

 same conclusion, inasmuch as he is inclined to trace all phe- 

 nomena to the action of superhuman avill. He says : ''* If 

 therefore we have traced one force, however minute, to an 

 oiigin in our own will, while we have no knowledge of any 

 other primary cause of force, it does not seem an improbable 

 conclusion that all force may be will-force ; and thus that 

 the whole universe is not merely dependent on, but actually 

 zs, the WILL of higher intelligences, or of one Supreme In- 

 telligence." 



If there is really evidence, as Mr. Wallace believes, of 

 the action of an overruling intelligence in the evolution of 

 the " human form divine ; " if we may go so far as this, then 

 surely an analogous action may well be traced in the pro- 

 duction of the horse, the camel, or the dog, so largely iden- 

 tified with human wants and requirements. And if from 

 otiier than physical considerations we may believe that such 

 action, though undemonstrable, has been and is ; then 

 (reflecting on sensible phenomena the theistic light derived 

 from psychical facts) we may, in the language of Mr. Wal- 

 lace, " see indications of that power in facts which, by them- 

 selves, would not serve to prove its existence." " 



Mr. Murphy, as has been said before, finds it necessary 

 to accept the wide-spread action of " intelligence " as the 

 agent by which all organic forms have been called forth 



" Loc. cit., pp. 351, 352. " Lqc. cit., p. 368. 



«> Loc. cit., p. 350. 



